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Semi 1: Here’s the ten qualifiers!
Ten lucky winners made it through to Saturday’s grand final tonight. Congratulations to them!
ESC 2021 is here: The birth of a new decade
You may put a crack in the Eurovision Song Contest, but you can’t break it. We salute the start of the contest’s glorious twenties!
ESC 2021: The escgo! predictions for tonight’s semi-final 1
It wouldn’t be Eurovision without some predictions from our team! These are the songs that Felix, Shi and Martin think will qualify from tonight’s first semi-final.
Je me cash: A look at the betting markets for the first semi-final
Martin takes his traditional look at the betting markets for the contest, starting with tonight’s first semi-final!
The View from San Francisco: Tonight Again
In which “hey, don’t I know you from somewhere?” isn’t a pick-up line.
Semi-Final 1, Jury Rehearsal: Live blog
We blogged the jury rehearsal of the first semi-final as it happened. Check out our rolling liveblog!
Semi-Final 1, First Dress Rehearsal: Live blog
We blogged the first dress rehearsal of the first semi-final as it happened. Check out our rolling liveblog!
The View from San Francisco: Is This What You Wanted?
In which Shi ponders about the auto finalists and the difference between “not trying to win” and “trying not to win”.
Rotterdam 2021: Turquoise Carpet Report
Today, the Turquoise Carpet event was held in Rotterdam as part of today’s opening ceremony! We followed the event on its live stream – and here are our highlights from today’s glamorous opening event!
Blue Carpet Gallery: Semi-final 2
We attended the Blue Carpet ceremony at ESC 2018 – check out our photo gallery of the artists from the second semi-final!
The View from San Francisco: Semi 1 Post Mortem
Shi casts her eye over the aftermath of semi 1 – and has some tough words for the much-praised Cypriot performance.
Semi 1: The ten qualifiers and their final halves!
The first semi-final of the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest is over, and we have our ten qualifiers for the grand final on Saturday night! At the post-show press conference, the lucky artists also found out whether they will perform in the first or second half of the...
ESC 2018: The escgo! predictions for tonight’s first semi-final
The first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 is just a few hours away, and so it’s time for us in the escgo! team to predict the ten qualifiers for the grand final on Saturday.
Good, better, betting: Your guide to semi-final 1
Ahead of tonight’s first semi-final, Martin takes a look at the betting options you might want to consider if you want to make a profit from your favourite TV show.
Download and print your voting sheet for the first semi-final
Print your voting sheet for the first semi-final! It’s printer-friendly: greyscales only, no flags, no images.
Semi-final 1: Jury rehearsal tweet blog
Felix was tweeting live from the arena during tonight’s semi-final dress rehearsal, which will also form the basis for the juries’ votes. This post handily rounds up all his tweets in one place!
Blue Carpet Gallery: Semi-final 1
We attended the Blue Carpet ceremony at ESC 2018 – check out our photo gallery of the artists from the first semi-final!
A German in Lisbon: The middle weekend
A Saturday at the Israeli party and a Sunday on the Blue Carpet are just some of the highlights in Felix’s latest Lisbon round-up!
The View from San Francisco: Second Rehearsals, Day 8
Shi will have plenty to say about the big shows this week too – but before that, she completes her review of the rehearsals with the automatic finalists!
SongHunt 2018 – The Final!
What’s the best non-winning national final song of the 2018 Eurovision season? Our SongHunt reaches its conclusion – and your votes will decide the winner!
Five more times the Eurovision host country went local
So you’ve won the Eurovision Song Contest. What next? We look at five times the host nation took the opportunity to show off a bit of niche local flavour – in one form or another.
The View from San Francisco: Second Rehearsals, Day 7
You don’t have to be in the press centre to need a stiff drink when it comes to reviewing a whole day of the second semi-finalists. Shi knows.
A German in Lisbon: Russia, Moldova, Cable Car!
Over in Lisbon, Felix experiences seriously contrasting rehearsals from Russia and Moldova – and views the Altice Arena from a unique angle!
The View from San Francisco: All Kinds of Rehearsals, Day 6
A bit of semi 1, a bit of semi 2, a bit of the grand final – all of this and more occupies Shi in her latest San Francisco review.
A German in Lisbon: Justice for Valentina!
San Marino! Other things happened to Felix in Lisbon today too. But mainly: San Marino!
A German in Lisbon: First impressions from the host city
As Felix decided to not spend all of his time cooped up in the arena, he went on a quick bus tour around Lisbon and collected some first impressions of the host city!
The View from San Francisco: Second Rehearsals, Day 5
Portugal is an Atlantic-facing country. On the other side of the Atlantic and beyond is San Francisco. Shi is there, and she will give you all the analysis you need and more. Day 5, you have been warned!
A German in Lisbon: The first full day
As anyone who ever lived in Cologne would say: "Et es wie et es, et kütt wie et kütt, un et hätt noch emmer joot jejange." That's Cologne dialect for "It's how it is, it will be like it is, and it has always worked out fine in the end." It's time for me to adopt this...
A quick update from the arena
Hello from Felix in the Altice Arena! It's this website's first full day in Lisbon, it's the first day of open rehearsals, and… well, let's just say things went a bit differently to how we imagined. So we're adapting to the situation and changing our plan to something...
The View from San Francisco: First Rehearsals, Day 4
Over in San Francisco, Shi has now seen all of the semi-finalists rehearse once. But is she any the wiser? And what does Harry Potter have to do with all of this?
Lisbon Day 4: The view from… Lisbon!
Felix casts his eye over the fourth day of rehearsals in concise form. Sometimes you don’t need many words.
A German in Lisbon: The arrival
Felix’s daily reviews from Berlin are a thing of the past – because they’re now daily reviews from the host city Lisbon!
escgo! has arrived in Lisbon!
It's late in the afternoon, or early in the evening, however you want to define this time of the day, but: We, escgo - I, Felix - have arrived to the bubble! It's my first time with F accreditation, and the only editor from our team on-location, so things will be a...
The View from San Francisco: First Rehearsals, Day 3
Day three in the Lisbon madhouse, and our foreign correspondent Shi is trying to take it all in from the other side of the Atlantic.
Lisbon Day 3: The view from Berlin
Tomorrow Felix travels to Lisbon, where he’ll be blogging for us throughout the rest of the ESC weeks! But before that, how did he see day 3 from home base?
The View from San Francisco: First Rehearsals, Day 2
Shi’s “View from San Francisco” series continues! Pull up a chair and join our foreign correspondent as she examines the second day of rehearsals in Lisbon.